What if things were reversed?
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What if things were reversed?
| Mon, 09-15-2008 - 6:59pm |
This is my first time posting on this board. It seems like there are alot of very well-informed and passionate people here! I look forward to hearing all your thoughts.
This was sent to me by a friend, and another ivillage friend suggested I share it here. It certainly makes you think.
What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review? What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class? What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said "I do" to? What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his standards?
What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization? What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard? What if Obama were a member of the "Keating 5"? What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.
--permission from darrell taylor to reprint for discussion purposes.--
What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization? What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard? What if Obama were a member of the "Keating 5"? What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.
--permission from darrell taylor to reprint for discussion purposes.--


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All of those things mention positive things about Obama and negative things about McCain and try to play it off as if this is about racism suggesting if those things were reversed this election would be much different because of racism...
I agree with you it would, but not the way you're suggesting since you can add all those things together and still wipe it all out with one response...
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actually, it wouldn't matter.
Because even if Obama were white, he'd still be inexperienced and the most liberal member of the senate.
What if the roles were reversed and McCain was a 20-year member and close personal friend to a racist organisation with a racist leader?
What if John McCain were an inexperienced, ineffective community organizer with no record of any kind of accomplishment to speak of? What if Barak Obama were a patriotic war hero with decades of foreign policy, military and national security experience? What if John McCain attended a church that espoused racism and anti-American sentiment and cavorted with terrorists and felons? What if Barak Obama actually had a record of reform and bi-partisanship?
What if Michelle Obama was caring woman who taught special needs kids when she didn’t even need to work, chaired several charities and traveled internationally to care for impoverished and sick and war refugees? What if Cindy McCain were an angry, bitter white woman who was never proud of the country that gave her every opportunity for success?
If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes the negative qualities in one candidate (Obama) and demeans and ignores the positive qualities in another (McCain) when there is a color difference.
Well, now - someone in the McCain campaign wrote a line by a notorious facist/anti-Semite named Westbrook Pegler into Sarah Palin's speech that she delivered at the convention.
Nobody's noticed until now, because they attributed it to "a writer," but eventually Robert Kennedy, Jr. figured out where he'd heard it before....because this was the same guy who'd wished (in print) in 1968 that "some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his (Bobby Kennedy's) spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies."
And it hasn't seemed to affect Gramps McAncient or Governor Mooseburger all that much, now has it?
Stay classy - and, of course, TOTALLY non-racist - you guys in the McCain campaign!
But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence.....truth is considered profane, and only illusion sacred. Sacredness
But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence.....truth is considered profane, and only illusion sacred. Sacredness
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